I have been looking around without much luck for an XDMCP client which can run as a window under another X server.
As an example of what I am looking for, consider the Windows program Exceed, by Hummingbird. I can bring up an Exceed X server sesson and tell it to act as an XDMCP client. I can then point it at a Fedora (or other Unix) server with XDMCP turned on and can get a window with the desktop from the Fedora server. I can have serveral of these windows available at one time.
I suppose you could say I am running an X server using a window as the display screen.
Has anyone seen software which supports this functionality on Fedora? An RPM is of course preferable, but compile and install is OK too.
Bob Styma
Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote:
I suppose you could say I am running an X server using a window as the display screen.
Has anyone seen software which supports this functionality on Fedora? An RPM is of course preferable, but compile and install is OK too.
Indeed there is, and it's called Xnest. It supports most of the options of any X server.
yum -y install xorg-x11-server-Xnest
should provide you with what you need.
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 15:32 -0700, Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote:
I have been looking around without much luck for an XDMCP client which can run as a window under another X server.
As an example of what I am looking for, consider the Windows program Exceed, by Hummingbird. I can bring up an Exceed X server sesson and tell it to act as an XDMCP client. I can then point it at a Fedora (or other Unix) server with XDMCP turned on and can get a window with the desktop from the Fedora server. I can have serveral of these windows available at one time.
I suppose you could say I am running an X server using a window as the display screen.
Has anyone seen software which supports this functionality on Fedora? An RPM is of course preferable, but compile and install is OK too.
Bob Styma
Sure thing. What you're looking for is called Xnest. It's both an X server and a client that can run and display in your current X/GUI session. I believe it accepts some of the standard X command-line arguments, i.e. -geometry, -depth, -query, :N (where N is the display number you want it to use).
The package/version of this that i've got installed is xorg-x11-server-Xnest-1.0.1-9.fc5.5, which is available at
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/Fedora/RPM... for fc5 and at http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/Fedora/RPM... for fc6.
You can use your favorite package manager GUI, or from a command-line: yum -y xorg-x11-server-Xnest -or- rpm -ihv url_to_packagename.rpm
Note that it is not in the extras repository; it is one of the core packages.
You sound like you know what you're doing, anyway; the man pages are pretty helpful.
Hope this helps. Holler if ???s. - gabriel
Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote:
I have been looking around without much luck for an XDMCP client which can run as a window under another X server.
As an example of what I am looking for, consider the Windows program Exceed, by Hummingbird. I can bring up an Exceed X server sesson and tell it to act as an XDMCP client. I can then point it at a Fedora (or other Unix) server with XDMCP turned on and can get a window with the desktop from the Fedora server. I can have serveral of these windows available at one time.
I suppose you could say I am running an X server using a window as the display screen.
Has anyone seen software which supports this functionality on Fedora? An RPM is of course preferable, but compile and install is OK too.
Both Xnest and Xephyr are nested X servers (they are both an X server, and an X client) and do exactly what it appears you're looking for. They are both included with Fedora Core, just install them and read the documentation, it's pretty simple to set up.